The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1865 |
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... human prodigal , lost in the Swollen River of Life thundering over the world's precipices . Turn for a moment to the Grampians . You are all alone— quite by yourself - no object seems alive in existence - for the eagle is mute - the ...
... human prodigal , lost in the Swollen River of Life thundering over the world's precipices . Turn for a moment to the Grampians . You are all alone— quite by yourself - no object seems alive in existence - for the eagle is mute - the ...
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... , unplaided , and un- plumed in any tartan array , we are nathless human beings . You never beheld any other Two - legs but Celts . Yet think not that Highlanders people the whole earth , any more 16 ESSAYS : CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE .
... , unplaided , and un- plumed in any tartan array , we are nathless human beings . You never beheld any other Two - legs but Celts . Yet think not that Highlanders people the whole earth , any more 16 ESSAYS : CRITICAL AND IMAGINATIVE .
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... human beings she has nought to dread , for sacred to every Highlander is the Shieling where his daughter or his sister may be singing through the summer months her solitary song . On the Sabbath - day , too , she sits among her friends ...
... human beings she has nought to dread , for sacred to every Highlander is the Shieling where his daughter or his sister may be singing through the summer months her solitary song . On the Sabbath - day , too , she sits among her friends ...
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... human dwellings called streets . How you exult in the greeting air of the hills , and eye disdainfully with retro- verted glance the whole army of smoky chimneys , defiling afar off into one solid square ! Behind , a dim , dull , dusky ...
... human dwellings called streets . How you exult in the greeting air of the hills , and eye disdainfully with retro- verted glance the whole army of smoky chimneys , defiling afar off into one solid square ! Behind , a dim , dull , dusky ...
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... in imagination , as to walk in moonlight , tender as the true , by the glittering sound of streams , mur- muring absolutely out of and along the green pory earth ? Place a human being in a scene he has loved STREAMS . 29 29.
... in imagination , as to walk in moonlight , tender as the true , by the glittering sound of streams , mur- muring absolutely out of and along the green pory earth ? Place a human being in a scene he has loved STREAMS . 29 29.
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Página 203 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 11 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Página 79 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 396 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Página 270 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 132 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest;" for I felt that there could be no rest for me in the midst of such outrages and pollutions.
Página 397 - Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Página 243 - Thelwall, and ye that lecture as ye go, "And for your pains get pelted, praise Lepaux. " Praise him each Jacobin, or fool, or knave, " And your cropped heads in sign of worship wave. "All creeping creatures, venomous and low...